M 4.5 in New Zealand on 20 Feb 2017 01:16 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1105984
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 17.71 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.7153 , 172.7402
Event Date: 20 Feb 2017 01:16 UTC
20 Feb 2017 14:16 Local
Exposed Population:
400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2017 03:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008kul Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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The science behind the South Island's first fire tornado 2/23/2017 10:56:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),